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My work focuses on insights to be found across transgender sociology, public health, psychiatry, history of medicine, cognitive science, the social processes of science, transgender feminism, and human rights, taking an analytic approach that intersects these many perspectives and is guided by the lived experiences of transgender people. I live in Orlando with my family, and work mainly in technical writing.

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Maggie Gallagher: “Sustaining civilization itself”

I wish I had better news for you. It’s not everyone of course, but it’s many people trying to establish a new public norm that make the traditional, Biblical understanding of human reality the moral equivalent of racism.

Combining truth and love is not easy. But it is our job, no matter how difficult.

I hope you will read Debating Same-Sex Marriage and tell me what you think. (It’s a trade paperback, so just $11 on Amazon).

Share with me what you have learned—and what you need to know—about how to combine faithfulness to the truth with love, compassion and respect for human suffering.

We need each other for many reasons, but not least of all to prevent us from withering into the caricature that too many gay marriage advocates see. This is a great work, the work of sustaining civilization itself.

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My work focuses on insights to be found across transgender sociology, public health, psychiatry, history of medicine, cognitive science, the social processes of science, transgender feminism, and human rights, taking an analytic approach that intersects these many perspectives and is guided by the lived experiences of transgender people. I live in Orlando with my family, and work mainly in technical writing.

11 thoughts on “Maggie Gallagher: “Sustaining civilization itself””

I don’t think the “hypocrisy” accusation on anyone with a conservative social mindset like Gallagher’s will ever be of much use. A lot of social conservatives think hypocrisy is good, because it means you’re trying to enforce moral standards even though you yourself might not live up to them.

I always figure this comes from a Christian “we’re all sinners, but let’s keep declaiming and punishing all the sins” mindset. I’m not sure though.

And really, having children out of wedlock is A OK. I think it was actually ZJ in a “stop appropriating Jesus” video that made me realize several reasons why using morals and fantasies you (presumably?) don’t believe in, against people who supposedly do, means you’re giving a lot of ground in an argument before you even begin.

I honestly thought that this Gallagher person was an atheist until I re-read very carefully. The penultimate sentence is the only one that identifies her as being on the other side of the titular debate. The work of sustaining civilization, indeed.

I’m sure most folks here have seen this already, but it seemed pretty apropos:

It’s not everyone of course, but it’s many people trying to establish a new public norm that make the traditional, Biblical understanding of human reality the moral equivalent of racism

Maggie is twisting things here, as usual. It’s not man-woman marriage that “many people” are claiming is the moral equivalent of racism. It’s the way Maggie and others like her demand special rights for man-woman couples by implementing bans on same-sex marriage. You know, the way they used to have special rights for white people by banning marriage for non-whites, then later for interracial couples.